AnonymousBy an edhat reader
I heard a big crash one night this week and told my husband that sounded like a tree. He thought I was hearing things, and I went out with flashlight in the rain to look around, but could not see anything out of place.
Next a.m. I got a call from him that there WAS a tree down across the street in Modoc preserve. In fact there are two very old/tall trees down with about 4-5ft diameter trunks.
I spoke to the guys that are chopping them up today to see if they found any nests as I often heard owls hooting from that vicinity and have also seen hawks in the canopies. Glad for the rain, but sad for our previously thirsty and dying trees (and their dwellers such as woodpeckers). Wish I would have snapped a picture before they were chopped up. I am saving a piece to memorialize our time here as we are moving out of the county after 20 yrs here.
Sounds like the poster is only moving out of the county, not the country. Eucalyptus trees have fairly shallow roots so when the ground is wet they can go over easily.
So they do make a sound, when nobody is around…
Yeah. The old “birds will flap their wings and find another tree/bush” saw. It’s not like birds are territorial or anything.
I’m confused. Are the birds cashing out their Santa Barbara equity and buying another country? I suppose it’s doable – my friend sold his place an APS and bought Paraguay.
We were in SLO about a week ago and saw 3 fallen trees. Two were huge eucalyptus, and the other was a possibly an Italian stone pine. The good thing about birds is that they can easily find another place to live by flapping their wings. We also thought about moving out of the country, but came to the conclusion that the US is the place to live…and live well.
Clever 😉